Game 41: @ Coyotes - 7pm - City TV

[Josh]

Re: Game 41: @ Coyotes - 7pm - City TV

Big win for the Sens :)

[Jasmine]

Re: Game 41: @ Coyotes - 7pm - City TV

So maybe it just took the right player to challenge his teammates..but apparently Anderson was quoted as saying something like we can definitely play better than this, we have to play with more hunger, be mean..and expect nothing else but a win. Play to win. Nothing else.

Ryan was asked what he thought of Andy's words and he said he hit the nail right on the head...

And what do you know, they are playing like they want this one. They are crashing the net, they are skating, they are winning battles along the boards...etc...oh yeah, almost forgot, they are leaging 3-1 after 2.

Go Sens!!

[Jasmine]

Here are the projected lineups for tonight's tilt:


SENATORS

Clarke MacArthur - Kyle Turris – Alex Chiasson
Mike Hoffman - Jean-Gabriel Pageau – Bobby Ryan
Erik Condra - Mika Zibanejad – Curtis Lazar
Milan Michalek - David Legwand - Mark Stone

Marc Methot - Erik Karlsson
Jared Cowen - Cody Ceci
Chris Phillips - Eric Gryba

Craig Anderson
Robin Lehner

Scratched: Colin Greening, Patrick Wiercioch

Injured: Mark Borowiecki (lacerated leg), Chris Neil (knee) Zack Smith (wrist)


COYOTES


Martin Erat – Antoine Vermette - Shane Doan
Lucas Lessio –Sam Gagner – Mikkel Boedker
Tobias Rieder – Kyle Chipchura – Lauri Korpikoski
Brandon McMillan – Joe Vitale – David Moss

Oliver Ekman-Larsson – Michael Stone
Keith Yandle – Chris Summers
Brandon Gormley Connor Murphy

Mike Smith
Devan Dubnyk

Injured: Martin Hanzal, Zbynek Michalek

Scratched: B.J. Crombeen


The game will feature the first NHL matchup of the Stone brothers – Ottawa forward Mark Stone and Coyotes defenseman Michael Stone.

“We had quite a few battles in the basement and out on the driveway, no matter what sport we were playing,” Michael Stone said. “One of the main reason we got where we are at is we pushed each other along. You hope at the beginning of the season that it will work out and we’re still both playing when January comes. It worked out, and to be on the same NHL game sheet; that’s something you dream about that’s coming true.”

A second matchup of brothers – Milan and Zbynek Michalek – was derailed by Zybnek’s injury. It would have been the first time two unrelated sets of two brothers faced off against each other in the NHL since Dec. 23, 1983, when Wayne Babych and Joe Mullen of St. Louis faced off against Dave Babych and Brian Mullen of Winnipeg.